On 26/07/2012 23:50, Bob Hobden wrote:
"David Hill" wrote

I always throw any left over food, chicken bones etc under the hedge,
in the evening in the one spot, and for years we have had a fox or two
and a badger visiting for them.
A few weeks ago I chucked out a chicken carcass, then went out about
half an hour later with a few more scraps, this would have been about
10pm, something moved away grumbling, making sounds I've never heard
form our visitors before, it's grumbling carried on till it was a good
50 yards away.
Then over this last weekend I found a casserole dish of pasta I'd
forgotten, it was niffing a lot, but I thought they would clear it.
I was wrong , in the morning something had scratched all round it to
bury it the same as a cat will cover it's mess.
The area scratched was about a Sq. yard, the next night more covering.
Now I doubt it's a Fox, but a Fussy Badger?
Any ideas?

When you say "grumbling" exactly what do you mean? Was it a pig (or
hedgehog) type noise, or cat like, or dog like?

Not a sound I've heard before, I know it wasn't pig, moved to fast for
hedgehog, and certainly not a noise I've ever heard a cat or dog make.
Last night I disturbed a badger, and all it did was to move off along
the hedge.